💵 The total outflow from Bitcoin funds over the past two days amounted to $246 million
The trend continues: new IBIT (BlackRock) shares are not created or repurchased; largest sources of outflow GBTC & FBTC
Total assets under management of 11 funds – $55.5 billion; decrease since June 6 (when BTC ≈ $71k) by $6 billion
🦘Around Australia:
Monochrome IBTC added $150,000;
They invested $6888 in VanEck VBTC (and at least it’s not an outflow 😼)
🤢 There is an increase in the number of fake USDT contracts in the TON network
Since exchanges have recently started supporting USDT deposits into TON (for example, Binance fully integrated just yesterday), many people want to take advantage of this
Attackers deploy a contract, mine tokens for themselves and send them to crypto exchanges, while the metadata corresponds to real USDT
The strategy is to first send a small amount of “USDT” and then gradually increase it, with the goal of further withdrawing real coins
🔶 American Congressmen visited Binance Head of Financial Crime Prevention Tigran Gambaryan
French Hill reported that Tigran developed pneumonia and malaria in prison, lost a lot of weight and was not receiving proper medical care, although the government denies this
Prior to joining Binance, he served in the US Internal Revenue Service for 10 years, as listed on his LinkedIn
On June 14, the Nigerian tax authorities dropped charges of tax evasion against Gambaryan, but he is still accused of money laundering
On June 20, court hearings began, during which Tigran and Binance were accused of laundering $35.4 million.
In addition, the company was under suspicion of financing terrorism.
🌐 Venture fund Pantera Capital is looking for money for additional investments in TON - TheBlock reports
For this purpose, a separate fund “Pantera TON Investment Opportunit” was created, which will directly buy TON coins. Interested investors had until June 21 to respond, and the minimum investment per participant is $250,000
In May of this year, Pantera Capital already invested an undisclosed amount in TON, marking it as “the largest investment in the company’s history.”
